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Earlier today, two screenshots of an ad from one of Microsoft’s sites began circling internet forums and blogs: one depicted a conference table with a couple of happy employees: an Asian man, a black man, and a white woman. The other image was from the Polish version of the same site, and it’s identical to [...]

Google Book Search is a Google project that has promised to offer millions of books and published material to the masses in an archived and online format. While useful and convenient, it’s also been very controversial. Last year, book authors, the Authors Guild, book publishers, and the Association of American Publishers filed two [...]

Music’s long struggle with the web has been well documented. As consumers shifted from CDs to digital media, music labels, artists, and the RIAA have struggled with how to cope. While some have decided to sue consumers for $22,500 per song, others have found ways to embrace the web.
Now Microsoft’s Director of Consumer [...]

If you like those nifty Flickr slideshows and would like to be able to easily embed them into your website, seek no further. FlickrSlidr is a new tool which makes it dead simple: enter the URL of the user, photo set or group you’d like to embed, slap some tags and a description, choose width [...]

Sproose, the user-ranked search engine, released a new voting interface for its service, offering a more reflective interaction for users’ search results.
Users can now simply click the “I like it” button beside any search result, and the effects of that vote are seen immediate, and move the result up in ranking. A total score [...]

Protonotes is a collaborative annotation system that lets teams keep a wiki-like conversation flowing around a particular web page.
Protonotes doesn’t require any installation of any sort, which is good. However, this service currently works in Internet Explorer browsers only. Once you’ve registered for Protonotes, you’re sent an email with a link that runs [...]

Netscape’s latest Navigator release, 9.0 Beta 1, is now live and available here for download. The most important aspects to note are Netscape’s newest social browsing features. It’s compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux.
A few new items in Navigator 9 include URL correction, which will automatically fix common typos in URLs (yay!). A confirmation-enabled [...]

MiniMobs is a new chat messenger service that lets you embed its portable chat service onto your blog or website, or social networking profile.
MiniMobs comes in the shape of a mobile phone; choose from multiple colors of a Razor or a Chocolate, among other brands. Cuztomize your phone by skin color and screen [...]

Google Calendar has launched a directory for public calendars, which are searchable and can be added to your own calendar view. Those that do not have their own Google Calendar can still view these public calendars as well.
While shared calendars were already available to be searched, the directory enhances search and encourages sharing options, [...]